I am just beginning to read the documentation on ML flexible replication
(we are using ML 4.2-5) and as I do, I wanted to check with you all to see
if it is going to work for what we want to do.

What we're looking to do is have two systems that are essentially like
failover nodes for each other.  They are in two different geographical
locations, the same installed codebase, and we wish for their databases to
be kept in sync.

Both nodes though support not just the displaying of information but the
updating of it.  They are conceptually peers.  The documentation uses the
terms 'Master' and 'Replica' databases, which in and of itself is just
verbiage - we could easily pick a 'master' as long as the peer concept can
work.  However, this section in the documentation is what gave me pause:

"Replicated databases do not necessarily need to be configured as entirely
a Master or a Replica in
the replication scheme. For example, you may have two databases, DB1 and
DB2, where DB1
replicates updates to the documents in Domain A to DB2 and DB2 replicates
updates to the
documents in Domain B to DB1.

Note: This is not a multi-master replication configuration, as the
documents updated by
each application *must be in different domains*. Any overlap between the
replicated
domains may result in unpredictable behavior."

What we had hoped for is syncing of the same domains, the same documents,
in a two-way sync.  Conflict detection and resolution.

Is this possible using this feature?  Any help at all is greatly
appreciated.

Josh Warner-Burke
Tech Lead, Coral Reef
42Six Solutions
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